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Bringing science on cycling to practice & back | Main contributor Marco te Brömmelstroet | Urban Cycling Institute | MOOC: https://t.co/hIqOuqPwoI
Amsterdam
Joined July 2010
🔥 If your road safety campaign doesn't follow this basic rule, you don't really care about road safety that much.
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Do you want to know the mobility priorities of your city leaders? Don't look for the empty words of their strategic documents. Look to their practices of snow clearance! (by @thebikinglawyer/@tflood1)
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🗣️ "It's not safe to go on your bicycle; it is too icy!" 🇳🇱: 'Hold my #stroopwafel🍪 and @Heineken🍺'
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Do you want to know the mobility priorities of your city leaders? Don't look for the empty words of their strategic documents. Look to their practices of snow clearance! (by @thebikinglawyer/@tflood1)
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Check out our recent Open Access article on why it is so important to change our narratives around road safety:
tandfonline.com
In this position paper, we discuss contemporary discursive spaces of transport in Australia and their reflexive relationships with policy and practice. With a focus on ‘devious frames' developed an...
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#Helsinki🇫🇮 jshows us: It is possible to go a full year with zero traffic deaths.🚶♀️🚲🚗 Not a matter of luck. But a matter of policy. 🚗 Slower streets 🚲 Protected bike lanes ❎ Safer crossings 📝 Data > excuses Vision Zero works. Cities can choose safety. Who’s next?
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🗣️ 'No one cycles when it's cold!' Kids & parents of #Oulu🇫🇮 didnt get that memo. At –20°C, 7-year-olds in Oulu bike to school alone. Not because they’re tougher—but because the city made it safe & easy. This isn’t about weather. It’s about priorities. (🎞: @harrivaarala)
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With #snow❄️ Mother Nature reveals how much we over-designed our streets for cars. If we learn to look carefully, she also inspires us to create healthier and more equitable streets for all! - Philadelphia🇺🇸, S 4th & Monroe St. (📸 by @drewkaiser | Animation by @otucis)
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Try leaving your sofa🛋️ on the street and see what happens. Leave your private car🚗 there for weeks? Totally fine! Why is that? See @Davewalker's handy guide for what you can/cannot store in the street.
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'We cannot change; we are not #Amsterdam!1!' Anne Hidalgo, Mayor of #Paris: 'Hold my🍷+🥖' 🚲 +800km new bike paths. 🌳 +200.000 new trees. 🚗 -40% car traffic. 🤸♀️ +200 car free school streets. 🌫️ Significant drop in air pollution Stop making excuses! Start making the future!
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'If cities are designed only for cars, children will disappear from public life.' —Jan Gehl Is it really too much to ask for 15 minutes a day in which our streets belong to the children? Who is against their free and fearless fun? (🎞️ of @bicibuseixample by @lljunca)
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@PlanningPeeps If you also think we need to question #CarSupremacy, please consider supporting our research:
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Marco te Brommelstroet Needs Your Help | Every year, over one million people lose their lives in car crashes. Hundreds of thousands more die from car-related air pollution. Behind these tragedies...
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Much of public debate revolves around the false promises of 𝐧𝐞𝐰𝐞𝐫 𝐜𝐚𝐫𝐬. But our cities would really benefit from 𝐟𝐞𝐰𝐞𝐫 𝐜𝐚𝐫𝐬. (🖼️ by @PlanningPeeps)
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We've heard that local shop owners like to make a profit. So, quiz question: - in which of these two designs of Rue Pavée in #Paris🇫🇷 can they expect most costumers?
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The problem is not that our streets are fixed. The problem is that our thinking about them is. — Boulevard de l'Amiral Buix, #Paris🇫🇷 (📸 of before/after by @EmmanuelSPV)
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The car industry’s biggest win was taking our streets and making it feel normal. (🖼️ by Karl Jilg)
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When you’re accustomed to privilege, equality feels like oppression. (🖼️ by @fabiantodorovic)
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By offering more choice, European cities🇪🇺 across the board are successfully reducing car dependency. Which is your favourite? 📉 by Breogan Sanchez 🔢 by #EMTA
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We don’t need another inquiry or another decade of delays. We need a new narrative. One where healthy, safe, human-centred mobility is the expectation — not the exception. When we change the story, policy follows. Read the Open Access paper here: https://t.co/lpoXmfc8Ju
tandfonline.com
In this position paper, we discuss contemporary discursive spaces of transport in Australia and their reflexive relationships with policy and practice. With a focus on ‘devious frames' developed an...
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Cities worldwide are choosing: 🚶♀️ safer streets 🚌 reliable public transport 🚲 connected bike networks 🏞 neighbourhoods designed for people, not traffic You can too — You just need to change the story.
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